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• Memoirs of Jeremy Bentham; Including Autobiographical Conversations and Correspondence.
• Chapter I.: Infancy and Boyhood.—1748-59.
• Chapter II.: School and College, 1754—1763. Æt. 6—15.
• Chapter III.: 1763—1770. Æt. 15—25.
• Chapter IV.: 1770—1780. Æt. 22—32.
• Sundry Memoranda of Bentham, Made In 1773-4:—
• Prejugés In Favour of Antiquity.
• Vulgar Errors—political.
• Punishment.—origin of the Vindictive Principle.
• Pensées.
• Digest of the Law Premature Before Locke and Helvetius.
• Principles of Education.
• Vicinage of a Jury.
• Bolingbroke’s Idea of a Patriot King.
• Public Virtue In the Body of the People.
• Emblem For the System of Codes—subject For a Medallion.
• Abuse and Use.—both Equally Effects.
• King Henry V. Committed By Chief-justice Gascoigne—a Subject For a Picture.
• Dic Aliquid Et Quod Tuum.
• Conduct of the Understanding In Composing.
• Pensées.
• Prejugés.—lawyers.
• Perspicuity.
• Pensées.
• Fictions of Law.
• Terms Familiar Falsely Supposed to Be Understood.
• Terræ Filius.
• Pensées.
• Subjects For Premiums.
• Title For a Book.
• Education.
• Bentham to His Father.
• Revenus Prosecutions.
• Employment For Pauper Manufacturers.
• Law—an Affair of Pain and Pleasure.
• Truth—in Books.
• Chapter V.: 1781.— Æt. 33.
• Lord Shelburne to Bentham.
• Bentham to George Wilson. *
• Bentham to His Father.
• Bentham to George Wilson.
• Bentham to His Father.
• Bentham to Geo. Wilson.
• Bentham to Lord Shelburne.
• Chapter VI.: 1781—1785. Æt. 33—37.
• Bentham to Lord Shelburne.
• Bentham to Dr Anderson.
• Bentham to Mr Stewart. *
• Francis Villion to Bentham.
• Francis Villion to Bentham.
• James Trail to Bentham.
• George Wilson to Bentham.
• Dr Swediaur to Bentham.
• James Trail to Bentham.
• James Trail to Bentham.
• Dr Symonds to Bentham.
• Bentham to Joseph Townsend.
• Joseph Townsend to Bentham.
• Blackstone.
• Rotten Boroughs.
• Principle of Utility.
• Apostrophica Ad Orthodoxos De Principiis.
• Elogia—locke, Priestley, Beccaria, Johnson.
• Philip and the Athenians Are the Ministry and the Legislators.
• Mansplitting.
• Montesquieu.
• Jury.
• Subscription to Articles of Faith.
• Logic.
• Public Spirit.
• Moral Sanction.
• Apologetica Recapitulatoria.
• Religious Sanction.
• Belief.
• Temper Popular—experire.
• Commonplace Morality.
• Chapter VII.: 1785—1787. Æt. 37—39.
• Lord Lansdowne to Bentham.
• Bentham to Lord Lansdowne.
• Chamberlain Clark to Bentham.
• George Wilson to Bentham.
• Bentham to George Wilson.
• George Wilson to Bentham.
• Bentham to George Wilson.
• “proposed Dedication.
• “ Premium.
• Bentham to Farr Abbott.
• Chapter VIII.: 1787—1789. Æt. 39—41.
• Bentham to His Brother.
• Lord Lansdowne to Bentham.
• Brissot to Bentham.
• George Wilson to Bentham.
• Romilly to Bentham.
• Lord Lansdowne to Bentham.
• Bentham to Lord Wycomber.
• Bentham to the Abbé Morellet.
• George Wilson to Bentham.
• Letters of Anti-machiavel to the Public Advertiser.
• Chapter IX.: 1789—1791. Æt. 41—43.
• Bentham to George Wilson.
• Bentham to George Wilson.
• Bentham to His Brother.
• Dumont to Bentham.
• The Portrait of Jeremy Bentham, Esq. of Lincoln’s Inn.
• Bentham to Brissot.
• Bentham to Lord Lansdowne. *
• Lord Lansdowne to Bentham.
• Bentham to Lord Lansdowne.
• Dr Richard Price to Bentham.
• Bentham to George Wilson.
• Chapter X.: 1791—1792. Æt. 43—44.
• Sir Reginald Polr Carew to Bentham.
• Bentham to His Brother.
• Dr Anderson to Bentham.
• Bentham to Lord Lansdowne.
• Bentham to Lord Lansdowne.
• Pole Carew to Bentham.
• Bentham to George III.
• Lord Lansdowne to Bentham.
• Bentham to His Brother.
• Romilly to Bentham.
• Benjamin Vaughan to Bentham.
• Bentham to J. P. Garran.
• J. P. Garran to Bentham.
• “ National Assembly.—the Law and the King.
• Bentham to Miss V—.
• Benthem to Brissot.
• Chapter XI.: 1792-1795. Æt. 44—47.
• Bentham to Lord Lansdowne.
• “law Conferring On Several Foreigners the Title of French Citizen.
• “jeremy Bentham to the Minister of the Interior of the French Republic—respect,
• M. Delessert to Bentham.
• Dumont to Bentham.
• Beaumetz to Bentham.
• Bentham to Mr Law.
• Mr Law to Bentham.
• Bentham to Dr Anderson.
• Bentham to Thomas Law.
• Thomas Law to Bentham.
• Bentham to Mr Dundas.
• Thomas Law to Bentham.
• Bentham to His Brother.
• Bentham to Mr Dundas.
• Benjamin Vaughan to Bentham.
• Romilly to Bentham.
• Bentham to Philip Metcalf.
• James Trail to Bentham.
• Bentham to Philip Metcalf.
• Bentham to Arthur Young.
• Bentham to Charles Long.
• James Trail to Bentham.
• Bentham to Lord St Helens.
• Bentham to Lord Lansdowne.
• Chapter XII.: 1795—1799. Æt. 47—51.
• Lord Wycombe to Bentham.
• Bentham to the Duke De Liancourt. (boston, U. S.)
• Bentham to Lord Lansdowne.
• Bentham to William Wilberforce.
• William Wilberforce to Bentham.
• Lord St Helens to Bentham.
• Bentham to Lord St Helens.
• Observations On the Treason Bill; †
• The Generous Friend—a Lincoln’s Inn Tale.
• The Moral.
• Bentham to Pole Carew.
• Pole Carew to Bentham.
• Bentham to Charles Abbot. †
• W. Wickham to Charles Abbot.
• Bentham to Charles Abbot.
• Charles Abbot to Bentham.
• Bentham to George Rose.
• Bentham to William Wilberforce.
• Bentham to Charles Abbot.
• Bentham to P. Colquhoun.
• Bentham to Sir Francis Baring.
• Bentham to Sir Francis Baring.
• Sir Francis Baring to Bentham.
• Chapter XIII.: 1800—1801. Æt. 51—53.
• Peter Roget * to Bentham.
• Bentham to Speaker Addington.
• Charles Abbot to Bentham.
• Bentham to Charles Abbot.
• Bentham to W. Morton Pitt.
• Bentham to Dr Roget.
• Dr Roget to Bentham.
• Bentham to Charles Abbot.
• Hints Relative to the Population Bill. * to Charles Abbot, Esq., M.P.
• Bentham to Patrick Colquhoun.
• Patrick Colquhoun to Bentham.
• Bentham to George Rose.
• George Rose to Bentham.
• Bentham to George Rose.
• Bentham to Henry James Pye.
• Bentham to Lord St Helens.
• Bentham to Nicholas Vansittart.
• Bentham to Nicholas Vansittart.
• Nicholas Vansittart to Bentham.
• Objections to the Annuity-note Plan, With Answers.
• Bentham to Nicholas Vansittart.
• Bentham to Arthur Young.
• Answer to Mr Bentham’s Queries For England.
• Bentham to Arthur Young.
• Bentham to Nicholas Vansittart.
• Bentham to Dumont.
• Chapter XIV.: 1801—2. Æt. 53—4.
• Bentham to Dr Robert Watts.
• Dumont to Bentham. (translation.)
• Bentham to Dumont.
• Dumont to Bentham. (translation.)
• Bentham to Dumont.
• Bentham to Sir William Pulteney.
• Sir William Pulteney to Bentham.
• Dumont to Bentham. (translation.)
• Bentham to George Wilson.
• Bentham to Dumont.
• William Wilberforce to Bentham.
• Sir Frederick Morton Eden to Bentham.
• Bentham to Sir F. M. Eden.
• Sir F. M. Eden to Bentham.
• Bentham to Dumont.
• Romilly to Bentham.
• Bentham to Sir Thomas Trowbridge.
• Bentham to David Collins. *
• Chapter XV.: 1803—7. Æt. 54—59.
• Bentham to Dumont.
• Romilly to Bentham.
• Dr Samuel Parr to Bentham.
• Bentham to J. Mulford. *
• Dr Parr to Bentham.
• Dumont In Petersburg.
• Dumont to Romilly.
• Dr Parr to Bentham.
• Bentham to Dr Parr.
• Bentham to Dumont.
• Bentham to Sir R. P. Carew.
• Bentham to J. Mulford.
• Dr Parr to Bentham.
• Rev. John North to Bentham.
• Dr Parr to Bentham.
• Dr Parr to Bentham.
• Romilly to Bentham.
• General Sabloukoff to Bentham.
• Romilly to Bentham.
• Mr William Hutton * to Bentham.
• Bentham to Sir Samuel Romilly. On the Reform of the Judicatures In Scotland.
• Bentham to Mr Mulford.
• Chapter XVI.: 1807—1810. Æt. 59—62.
• Dumont to Bentham. (translation.)
• Bentham to Sir Jas. Mackintosh, (1808.)
• Bentham to Lord St Helens.
• Lord St Helens to Bentham.
• Mr Whishaw to Bentham.
• Sir Samuel Romilly to Bentham.
• Colonel Burr.
• Dumont to Bentham.
• Dumont to Bentham.
• Col. Aaron Burr to Bentham.
• Colonel Burr to Bentham.
• Dumont to Bentham.
• Bentham to Lord Holland.
• Bentham to J. Mulford.
• Francis Horner to Bentham.
• Lord Holland to Bentham.
• Don Gaspar M. De Jovellanos to Bentham.
• Lord Holland to Bentham.
• James Mill to Bentham.
• Sir Samuel Romilly to Bentham.
• James Mill to Bentham.
• Dumont to Bentham. (translation.)
• Colonel Burr to Bentham.
• James Mill to Bentham.
• Bentham to James Mill.
• James Mill to Bentham.
• James Mill to Bentham.
• Bentham to J. Mulford.
• Dumont to Bentham. (translation.)
• Chapter XVII.: 1810—1813. Æt. 62—65.
• Blanco White to Bentham
• Bentham to Blanco White.
• Bentham to Mr Mulford.
• Bentham to Cobbett.
• Dumont to Bentham. (translation.)
• The Rev. R. B. Nickolis to Bentham.
• Bentham to Sir Francis Burdett.
• Brougham to Mill.
• Dumont to Bentham. (translation.)
• Major Cartwright to Bentham.
• Bentham to Major Cartwright.
• Major Cartwright to Bentham.
• Colonel Burr to Bentham.
• Dumont to Bentham. (translation.)
• Lord Holland to Bentham.
• James Mill to Bentham.
• Bentham to Lord Sidmouth.
• Bentham to Mr Mulford.
• James Mill to Bentham.
• Mr Sugden * to Bentham.
• Bentham to Mr Mulford.
• Lieut. Blaquiere to Bentham.
• Sir James Mackintosh to Bentham.
• Chapter XVIII.: 1813—17. Æt. 65—69.
• Lord Holland to Bentham.
• Bentham to Lord Holland.
• Bentham to Admiral Tchitchagoff.
• James Mill to Bentham.
• Bentham to Mr Koe.
• Bentham to Mr Koe.
• Admiral Tchitchagoff to Bentham.
• Jean Baptiste Say to Bentham. (translation.)
• Joseph Jekyll to Bentham.
• Madame Gautier to Bentham.
• Admiral Tchitchagoff to Bentham.
• Dumont to Bentham.
• Chapter XIX.: 1817—1819. Æt. 69—71.
• Bentham to Sir Francis Burdett.
• Sir Francis Burdett to Bentham.
• Bentham to Sir Francis Burdett.
• Bentham to Ricardo.
• Francis W. Gilmer to Bentham.
• J. B. Say to Bentham. (translation.)
• “ Proposal
• I.: Results.
• II.: Course and Plan of Instruction, In the Cases of Adults.
• Governor Plumer to Bentham.
• J. B. Say to Bentham. (translation.)
• Bentham to Mr Thompson.
• Major Cartwright to Bentham.
• Bentham to Sir Francis Burdett.
• Notes Made By Bentham In His Memorandum-book, 1818-19.
• Chapter XX.: 1820—23. Æt. 72—75.
• Bentham to Richard Rush.
• Richard Rush to Bentham.
• Bentham to Rivadavia.
• Bentham to Blaquiere.
• Notes In Bentham’s Memorandum-book. 1820.
• The Book of Fallacies. Titles of Books, Parts, and Chapters.
• Book I.—: Fallacies of the Ins.
• Book II.—: Fallacies of the Ins.
• Book III.—: Eitherside Fallacies.
• Book IV.—: Fallacies of the Outs.
• Major Cartwright to Bentham.
• Major Cartwright to Bentham.
• Bentham to Major Cartwright.
• Bentham to J. C. Hobhouse.
• Dumont to Bentham. (translation.)
• Bentham to Cartwright.
• J. B. Say to Bentham. (translation.)
• Frances Wright to Bentham.
• Bentham to Richard Carlisle.
• John Bowring to Bentham.
• Notes In Bentham’s Memorandum-book, 1821.
• Bentham to Henry Brougham.
• Bentham to Richard Rush.
• Bentham to His Brother, Sir Samuel.
• Bentham to Dr Parr.
• Dr Parr to Bentham.
• Major Cartwright to Bentham.
• Dr Parr to Bentham.
• Extracts of a Letter From Bentham to the Greeks.
• Chapter XXI.: 1823—27. Æt. 75-79.
• Bentham to W. E. Lawrence.
• Bentham to Mordvinoff.
• Sir Francis Burdett to Bentham.
• Bentham to Sir Francis Burdett.
• J. B. to the Catholic Association.
• From Bentham’s Memoranda, 1824.
• Bentham to Joseph Parkes.
• “ Supposed Sacrifice of Power By George the Third—supposed Independence of the Judges.
• To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle.
• Bentham to Sir F. Burdett.
• Sir F. Burdett to Bentham.
• Bentham to Burdett.
• Bentham to Dumont.
• Bentham to J. Quincy Adams.
• Mr Plumer to Bentham.
• José Del Valle to Bentham. (translation.)
• Rev. Sydney Smith to Bentham.
• Logic.—j. B.’s Logical Arrangements, Employed As Instruments In Legislation; and Locutions, Employed As Instruments In the Field of Thought and Action.
• Aphorisms Comprehensive and Concise. Instruments of Intellectual Agency.
• Aphorisms Comprehensive and Concise.
• Chapter XXII.: 1827—28. Æt. 79—80.
• John Neal to Bentham.
• Brougham to Bentham.
• Bentham to Brougham.
• Brougham to Bentham.
• Bentham to Brougham.
• Bentham to Col. Young.
• Bentham to the King of Bavaria.
• The King of Bavaria to Bentham.
• Memorandum, 1827.
• On Brougham’s Law Reform.
• Bentham to Rammohun Roy.
• Bentham to Sir F. Burdett.
• “ Address, Proposing a Plan For Uniting the Catholics and Dissenters For the Furtherance of Religious Liberty.
• Bentham to Daniel O’connell.
• Daniel O’connell to Bentham.
• Bentham to Daniel O’connell.
• Bentham to Daniel O’connell.
• Daniel O’connell to Bentham.
• Bentham to Daniel O’connell.
• Daniel O’connell to Bentham.
• Bentham to Daniel O’connell.
• Bentham to Chamberlain Clark.

Montesquieu.

“When the truths in a man’s book, though many and important, are fewer than the errors; when his ideas, though the means of producing clear ones in other men are found to be themselves not clear, that book must die: Montesquieu must therefore die: he must die, as his great countryman, Descartes, had died before him: he must wither as the blade withers, when the corn is ripe: he must die, but let tears of gratitude and admiration bedew his grave. O Montesquieu! the British constitution, whose death thou prophesiedst, will live longer than thy work, yet not longer than thy fame. Not even the incense of [the illustrious Catherine] can preserve thee.

“Locke—dry, cold, languid, wearisome, will live for ever. Montesquieu—rapid, brilliant, glorious, enchanting, will not outlive his century.

“I know—I feel—I pity—and blush at the enjoyment of a liberty which the birth-place of that great writer, (great with all his faults,) [forbade him to enjoy.]

“I could make an immense book upon the defects of Montesquieu—I could make not a small one upon his excellencies. It might be worth while to make both, if Montesquieu could live.”